📢 Casting call 📢 Hi, we're looking for a female narrator for our new game! No VA experience neeeded, and no accent preference. Must have access to ok mic, like a home podcasting setup. Paid gig, of course. Would love to hear reading samples in your natural voice: [email protected] 🙏❤️

I finished the first unseemly draft of my first unseemly novel 😭

Aw. Dan Simmons wrote one of the greatest novels, and I’ve enjoyed a ton of his work. What a bummer.

The paradigm shift comes with questioning why there must be a hand-off from product to engineering in the first place. stoic.substack.com/p/vigil-2-pr... by me #ai #engineering #product #design #ux

The world where this kind of emergent agent behavior is the norm. As the web makes itself more readily consumable by agents (Cloudflare creating a new “for agents” request header, for interest), means agents will stitch services together in ways that no one expected.

Why did the first person to eat a death cap mushroom do that? You'd think they would figure it out from the name

Very cool.

In my goal-tracking app (which is kind of nano-petty, and I am sending a Finch on adventures) I have a lot of daily goals around long-form attention. “Read articles without skimming,” “read 15 minutes of fiction that’s not on a screen,” etc. big recommend.

The state of having good alignment with your target ICP is to be "down with the clown."

Hourly billing for engineering work is fundamentally incompatible with AI. If you are hiring contractors you need to revisit those contracts and renegotiate them as value-priced contracts; if you are a freelancer, you need to practice articulating a value you bring to the table other than time.

Our parlor does Friday the 13th flash event, and Naely and I had a couple hours to ourselves.

Product Engineering and Product Management are consolidating. Product engineers who are not proactively making strategic product decisions will obsolesce, just as product managers who are not proactively engineering will obsolesce.

This is the realest writing ever writ. "I used to have this dog, Shep. I thought Shep was a good classic name. I like one-syllable names for dogs. I lost him in 1995 and I couldn’t ever bring myself to get another one. I spend a lot of time alone." stephaniesweeney.substack.com/p/two-little...

A poetic sentence about not being present. "Everyone is very, singularly, focused on the end game. Everyone is also extraordinarily, profoundly, nostalgic." kyla.substack.com/p/buying-fut...

mfw new relic ingests all of the data ever and hits me in the face with the invoice

My sleep deprived brain said "okay. yes. I want chess horror."

A new tense few minutes in the flash low-fantasy horror "Lady In Waiting," wherein a lady-in-waiting flees the kingdom long-walk style and struggles with exposure. This is the 7th episode, but they're "flash" - meaning ultra short. Human actors, no AI. open.spotify.com/show/7KJrADP...

Do not look away.

My ears would like to ensure Anticrastination get made, aaand I think you would too 👀. bit.ly/anticrastina...

#AmListening to Partial Veil, Liminal amlistening.substack.com/p/amlistenin...

The new 28 Years Later did the remarkable thing of being excellent. At this rate this may go down as one of the best trilogies. Can’t wait for number three.

I find it requires an uncanny amount of energy to just coexist with and compartmentalize the worldsuck. That just doing laundry is a willful act of hope.

Cory Doctorow sez:

It started when Paul Nguyen got sick. Now the whole camp is on edge. Episode 04 of The Young (our coming‑of‑age horror actual‑play) is here - and you honestly don't have to catch-up through the other episodes. Summer‑camp 90s nostalgia. 🎧 www.theyounghorror.com/p/04-buddy-s... #horror #actualplay

Someone’s sick at Camp Whippoorwill in my latest episode of THE YOUNG. Back in Michigan 1995, four junior counselors come of age just in time for the zombie apocalypse. www.theyounghorror.com/p/04-buddy-s... #AudioDrama #Horror

It won't hit podcatchers until the morning, but if you're up and at 'em you can stream the next THE YOUNG www.patreon.com/posts/young-... . Don't fear the patreon, it's totally free. The Young is a coming-of-age horror set in Michigan 1995. #actualplay #audiodrama #zombies

My inner voice is a witchy philosopher Squarrior (a warrior squirrel) 🐿️ keeping itself centered with Mongolian throat singing - but still fundamentally whimsical squirrel easily distracted and hungry.

Partial Veil was recommended to me a ton and I finally listened to the first episode. I'm pretty optimistic and subscribed. Might be way off but I'm getting True Detective vibes. #AmListening #audiodrama pod.link/1765764792/e...

Remember, there are two cakes.

Next episode of The Young ought to be done tomorrow and published either immediately when I finish or Monday. I'm technically _a lot behind_, but now that the holidays are in the rear view mirror things are shaping up. www.theyounghorror.com #walkingdead #actualplay #ttrpg

I heard the 1st episode of LIMINAL last night. It's a miniseries (?) where someone goes real deep while lucid dreaming - and gets stuck. My vibe is ... Inception + Freddy Krueger, in the what-happens-in-dreams-is-real sense. Easy subscribe for me. pod.link/1838164719/e... #amlistening #audiodrama

Read more books.

“We have been using social media for the past 20 years, …, we are still dealing with the consequences of bad policies and poor regulation from the early days of social media.”

Nothing like punching down on indie creators who are basically blessed if they even break even with ads.

I got a nice early surprise in the mail today... Already updated my Kickstarter prelaunch page at bit.ly/LevelOneRPG I'm so stoked. #TTRPG #IndieDev #KickStarter #Promote

This cover is so good.

The public release of the second season of our award winning #actualplay THE THIEF is around the corner, and it’s a really convenient time to remind you that this exists - because it’s been a minute 🫠. Start here: open.spotify.com/episode/485g...

The math of compounding isn’t just about revenue but belief horizons. When models aren’t built to see far enough, we mistake shortfalls for way bigger truths.

I listened to Chaika for the first time over the weekend because a random in discord said in-passing in some unrelated conversation: "I loved Chaika, it made me cry." open.spotify.com/episode/3iDX... #amlistening #audiodrama #fictionpodcast

Just opened the Kickstarter prelaunch for Ahu's First Patrol — a 5e-compatible solo adventure gamebook introducing Uoru, starting in Kaung Pi. If you like solo adventures or new settings, follow here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/mar... #ttrpg #gamebook #dnd

Nobody asked for this but I repurposed a substack I was squatting on to review #audiodramas and #actualplays. amlistening.substack.com/p/amlistenin... If you subscribe and comment your own show, I'll review it in the upcoming weeks. #ttrpg

Instead of doomscrolling, I made an excuse to prioritize making more space for #audiodramas, #actualplays, and other fiction. I'm a lapsed librarian, but follow me and let me connect you to good listening. amlistening.substack.com/p/amlistenin...

Hi there. I really want to see this Kickstarter make it. Keith is a seasoned storyteller, dad joke expert, and just one of the most genuine humans I have ever met. His new show Anticrastination is gonna be a riot. Please check out his #kickstarter campaign. www.kickstarter.com/projects/wke...

Let’s go cats!

Promote your audio drama or your actual play across my entire little mini-network of 6+ shows for a month for about $30. January is already sold out, there are 11 amazing months with your name on it. www.patreon.com/posts/studio... #audiodrama #actualplay #ttrpg

Finally trying to catch-up to The White Vault. #amlistening #audiodrama www.patreon.com/posts/goshaw...

Ex-Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun has Lunch with the FT and in one of those instances so rare that you know he didn't sign an NDA, says exactly why as.ft.com/r/e503690d-8...

Of 13 writings — selfish and otherwise; broad, narrow — the one I’m left with after burning one for the last twelve nights is well within my control: “my audio dramas find a large audience who like them.”

A reminder that new things enter the public domain today: www.bjornmunson.com/2026/01/01/p...